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Want to know what the Bible says about Music? Here are 272 Bible verses about Music from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Psalm 53:1 NIV
The fool says in his heart,
    “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
    there is no one who does good.
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Psalm 88:1 NIV
Lord, you are the God who saves me;
    day and night I cry out to you.
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Psalm 32:1 NIV
Blessed is the one
    whose transgressions are forgiven,
    whose sins are covered.
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Psalm 44:1 NIV
We have heard it with our ears, O God;
    our ancestors have told us
what you did in their days,
    in days long ago.
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Psalm 12:1 NIV
Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore;
    those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.
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Habakkuk 3:1 NIV
A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth.
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Exodus 15:20-21 NIV
20 Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing. 21 Miriam sang to them:
“Sing to the Lord,
    for he is highly exalted.
Both horse and driver
    he has hurled into the sea.”
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Judges 5:1-3 NIV
5 On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
2 “When the princes in Israel take the lead,
    when the people willingly offer themselves—
    praise the Lord!
3 “Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers!
    I, even I, will sing to the Lord;
    I will praise the Lord, the God of Israel, in song.
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1 Chronicles 15:16-22 NIV
16 David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.
17 So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his relatives, Asaph son of Berekiah; and from their relatives the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah; 18 and with them their relatives next in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.
19 The musicians Heman, Asaph and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals; 20 Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah and Benaiah were to play the lyres according to alamoth, 21 and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel and Azaziah were to play the harps, directing according to sheminith. 22 Kenaniah the head Levite was in charge of the singing; that was his responsibility because he was skillful at it.
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